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12 Days of Christmas

We began this Christmas season doing the 12 Days of Chritstmas.  For the first day we went to the Planetarium and saw “The Light Before Christmas”, then we went over and saw the lights on Temple Spuare.

It was cold!
On the second day of Christmas we got a present… such a fun family present.  First, for [...]

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School Christmas Programs

This year both Emily and Brandon had a Christmas Program that their class preformed in.
The Kindergartens combined to preform “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”. Alyssa, Leah and I went and watched Brandon’s program.

The first graders learned about many different cultures and how each one celebrates Christmas.  The classes combined to sing the songs and share [...]

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

December 2009
We hope this season finds you and your family well. We are doing well and continually growing. This year has been a fun adventure… and as always we enjoy and welcome new adventures. Just a few of our adventures this year were a new house, a new baby sister, and a [...]

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Emily’s Birthday

There has been much that has been happening here in our world.  Most recently Emily turned 7 years old.
It was a great time.  We went out to lunch and she wore her birthday crown from school.  People were great about wishing her a happy birthday cause it was written across her forehead.
She loved the attention [...]

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Who is who?

K… here we go again! Who is who AND who looks alike?
I tried to collect pics from each child around the same age. Good Luck!
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So blessed…

I really felt like blogging tonight… like it’s been a long time… and I need to update.  But I really have nothing to say.  No new pictures.  Why then do I feel so strongly to update the blog???
Brandon finished up his fall season of Soccer.  He loves every minute of the games and practices.  Mike [...]

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Home vidoes….

I was looking through all of our old pictures and ran upon this video (it’s a little slow to load… but well worth the wait) 
not so big kids

It was just so adorable…. it got me thinking about how often I have just videoed my kids now to document how cute they are.
So here [...]

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Fight Against Leukemia

There is a competition for a Prize for the person with the most blogs out there with this link….so just add it to your blog!
This is for my cousins’s little girl who has Leukemia. A friend has started a fundraiser to help; go to adashofseason.blogspot.com to read about it. All you have to do is [...]

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Emily’s Spelling Homework

Emily’s First Grade teacher is a fun/creative teacher.  For her spelling homework each week she has to choose 3 or 4 things to do (from a list of many) with her spelling list.
This was one of her projects she did this week for spelling.  She enlisted the help from a few neighbor kids and Brandon

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Family Photo Shoot

I’ve been wanting to have updated pictures of our family since it has been quite a while…. so Britta (my fabulously talented Sis-In-Law) came over and did a photo shoot with us.
Here are the results…..

Mike and Lexie – 8 Great Years Together!

Emily – 6 year old

Brandon – 5 years old

Alyssa – 17 months old

Leah – [...]

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